We propose that the phenomenon of definite reduplication in Greek involves using the definite determiner D as domain restrictor in the sense of Etxeberria & Giannakidou (2009). The use of D as a domain-restricting function with quantifiers has been well documented for European languages such as Greek, Basque, Bulgarian and Hungarian – and typically results in a partitive-like interpretation of the QP. We propose a unifying analysis that treats domain restriction and D-reduplication as the same

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... henomenon; and in our analysis, D-reduplication emerges semanti- cally as similar to a partitive structure, a result resonating with earlier claims to this end by Kolliakou (2004). None of the existing accounts of definites can capture the correlations in the use of D with quantifiers and in reduplication that we establish here.